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Matt Wrbican
Born1959 (1959)
Died2019 (aged 59–60)
NationalityAmerican
EducationCarnegie Mellon University
Occupationarchivist
Known forauthority on Andy Warhol

Matt Wrbican (1959–2019) was an American archivist and authority on the life of the artist Andy Warhol. He earned his BFA in Painting and MFA in Intermedia/Electronic Art from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he studied with Bruce Breland. He began working with the Warhol Archive in 1991 in New York City and became Chief Archivist of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He managed the Archive and Warhol's Time Capsules for more than two decades at the Warhol Museum, where he unpacked, processed, preserved, and documented an estimated 500,000 objects.[1] His last book is A is for Archive: Warhol's World from A to Z (Yale University Press, 2019).[2] He also exhibited his artwork at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Galleries. He died on Saturday, June 1, 2019, after a four-year battle with brain cancer.[3]

  1. ^ "Getting Inside Andy Warhol: The history and collections know-how of longtime Warhol archivist Matt Wrbican has already helped fill many books. Now the Pop Art archaeologist is filling his own book with an A-to-Z account of Warhol's world. By Barbara Klein". Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 29 November 2018.
  2. ^ "A is for Archive: Warhol's World from A to Z. By Matt Wrbican; Edited by Abigail Franzen-Sheehan; With contributions by Blake Gopnik and Neil Printz". Yale University Press.
  3. ^ "Obituary: MATTHEW HULIAK WRBICAN". Published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on June 5, 2019.

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